Writing in anger, writing in doubt: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

In 1975 Chinua Achebe delivered a public lecture at the University of Massachusetts entitled “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” where he condemned Conrad’s novella as a Western literary masterpiece on the grounds of its supposed racism. The objections Achebe made to support his accusation, and therefore to demonstrate Conrad COULD [...]

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